The Labor enquirer., 1887-03-05
FR0A T0P0L0sAMPO.
Ths Latest News From the Mexican
II Coleny In Sin.
4 aloa.

AHS Aetest NSWb EIOm eno &oAhC0n
| Colony In Sin.
| aloa.
For the Enquirer.
/ hasten to Law before the readers oi
lTHE LABOR ENogIRER that the frst
break has been made in the ranks oi
tile Credit Foncier directorate BY Louis
II. Hawkins of the third department
and William F. Eaton Of the ffth de.
partment. stated some time ago that
both Of these men came here in bad
to emper and abused everything and
fa cling ran high. Before they had been
here twenty-four hours they declared
Mr.. Owen fraud and the whole scheme
q mag nificent failure. The following
day they found the city site and the
Mochis ranch, and took look up the
Fuerte river, came back and sang its
praises. Finally Mr.. Eaton went up the
river to vegatcn to carry out the in
structions of Mr. Owen.
| Mr.. Hawkins remained at the bay en-
eaging himself In such work as direct
ing the small Mexican camp We have
here. drinking mescal and such other
things as fell In his way. making him.
self odious by getting up family row
when by Misrepresentation he got away
Ito Saragosa and the last heard from him
was at Vsgation which he left with q
paper in his pocket drawn up by Mr..
E Eston and signed BY his whole family
declaring that the whole colony was suf-
fering from famine; that We had no
land in Mexico; that Mr.. Owen was a
fraud, and the whole colony bubble had
burst. This was signed by some six or
seven others. At last L, II. Hawkin 8
was followed by W. F. Eaton and about
thirty others who left between two days
III at 2 o'clock In the norning-for par ts
unknown. Should their whereabouts
become known to any of Your readers,
please note that the said L. H. Hawkins
when last heard from had about 5000 Of
the colonists' money in his pock st
which would have gone far in breaking
up the famine alluded 10 in said docu
ments.
The moral of all this is that A. K.
Owen has had the misfortune Of making
an ass of himself by condemning the
lawyers and clergymen as men en-
ployed to SOW dissension among brsth-
rem, and t! en- in the kindness Of his
kindness of his heart to nominate two oi
them as directors in the Credit Foncier
company.
We, the colonists, are united and in
earnest and have no time to act as the
tools of any self-interested director who
NAV have come here with big-head on
him; we are we'll able to direct our.
selves, having studied our principles
and the principles underlying Integral
Cooperation and our we'll able to hold
our own until the return Of A. K. Oweni
on the twenty fifth of this month.
If any of your readers are aware Of the
present whereabouts OF William F. Ea.
ton, of Knightsville. Maine, and late
chief of police of the Credit Fonciel
company. sinaloa, Mexico, I desire to
return to the above chief of police ar
appointment received from him az mar
shal of Topolobampa Bay some week.
ago. q.
To s. R. G. GRIMES, California.-No
neither government grant or land title
Our colony is Mexican citizen. The
members can do as they please. More
hope than under the government Of the
United States. More just to the people
and less opposed to our purposes
About seven miles to the nearest ranch
Unlimited amount of land. We hold
personal property but no real estate
the land is held in trust for the people
No saloons and no churches. No secret
societies. Membership $40 (; paid in full
Units Of accounts as money. Duty, in
terdependence and equity our motto.
| ". 4 THoxAs YOU'VE.
ToPoLoBAMPo BAY. Sinalos. Mexico
Feb. 16. /
RA0par: "Chsrity. air charity